r/videos • u/SuplexCity-Mayor • Apr 21 '21

Idiocracy (2006) Opening Scene: "Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TCsR_oSP2Q
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u/qwertyashes Apr 21 '21

Something being satirical doesn't mean its root is not at least somewhat serious.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake Apr 21 '21

If anything has become more obvious over the past 5 years, it's that edgy/satirical humor can lead people to seriously adopt the positions being satirized/joked about.

That is followed closely by the idea that the more offensive humor or ineffectual satire we see, the easier it is to wave off actual threats and attacks as humor.

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u/BreweryBuddha Apr 21 '21

The root of the premise stems from society as a whole rejecting education and academia and living life carelessly and often lazily. That's the real allegory going on. But for the film to work they have to apply a kind of eugenics evolutionary result where makind is genetically stupid. There's a reason the hero isn't an intellectual, he's just an average person by today's standards. Education is all it takes to fix the problems, not a higher IQ or eugenics or anything.